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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Columbia Course on Social Software
Interesting syllabus for a course at Columbia’s Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (found via weblogg-ed). They are also aggregating content, through the del.icio.us tag “ccte”. It’s not clear to me if they are also using del.icio.us to tag their own blog entries, though that would be a pretty effective way to go about things. [...]
Katrina and native technologies
We’ve been reading The Human-Built World (Thomas Hughes) in the informatics seminar to get participants started in thinking about technology. I find it an interesting little book that fills a particular niche nicely. It’s a short read that spurs questions of how we can and should think about technology in a very broad way. Our [...]
Posted in Teaching, Technology Tagged appropriate technology, Hughes, Katrina, Systems Seminar Leave a comment
Off the record
I have been intrigued by Barry’s post and the responses that have ensued, relating to his dismay at having informal comments blogged without his consent. My first reaction (and I would be curious if others shared this) was to ensure that I was not the culprit by doing a bit of googling. I don’t think [...]
Posted in Research Tagged blogs, Com Theory, Mann, Privacy, Scholarly Communication, Systems Seminar, Wellman 1 Comment
Death to communication
The communication theory seminar is reading the Peters book this week. One of the students has written quite a bit on it, and I wanted to answer one of his recent posts. His entry wanders a bit, and so you’ll have to bear with me wandering back. And though I have framed this as a [...]
Incommunicato
Been mid-move for a bit here and all but totally cut off from the world. No net, no mass media of any sort. Our cable/phone/internet bundle should be up by Tuesday, but it means that I’ve been kind of in the dark for a bit. Here are some promised items for my classes. First copies [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Com Theory, Masters of Informatics, Systems Seminar, Teaching Leave a comment
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